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TBB MAM IN THE MOON. 23
-Ye& Bui here you are that's the house." The
Chlmney-EJf pointed to kige house, a little
way back
from the beach, a house remarkable principally for a
very high cupola on the top, and a large thorn-bosh
planted directly in front of die door. Beside this thonr
bush sat a pleasant-looking man, with a lantern between
his feet and a dog lying beside it.
In one hand he held
a large lump of green cheese, from which he took an
occasional nibble. AD the time, he was watching and
It^ffifig * mn^^f "" i T"*^ f** ip'fl'TT ^fig*" 1 upon die
ground beside him, with a large bowl of milk-porridge
upon his knees, which he was trying to eat ;
but as it was
frozen hard, his only way of doing so was to split
little
point of it.
off
bits with his pocket-knife, and eat them off the
There's that idiot, the Man from the South, again,"
snarled the Chimney-Elf in a low Toiee. Before Bboda
could ask who the Man from the South might be, the
Man in the Moon turned round for another nibble of
his cheese, and seeing them, cried out :
tt
Why, here's the Chimney-Elf, and Ehoda along
with him. How d'ye do, Ehoda 1"
* Very well, I thank you, sir," replied Ehoda, wondering
how the Man in the Moon came to be so well
acquainted with her; and. as the wonder passed through
her mind, he said:
"Why, itfs because I so often send yon
;
by the moonbeams. I never went down myself
feccies and